Improvement in clothes-pounders



JAMES W, NORTON, OF PIONEER, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 109,240, dated/ November ,15, 14870.

-IMPROVEMET IN CLCTHES-POUNDERS.

Thevschedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom tt may concern Be it known that I, JAMES W. N oRroN, of Pioneer, in the county of Venango and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a -new and valuable Improvement in Clothes-Founder and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a fuif, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being ha to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the lettersV and iigures ci' reference marked thereon.

Figure 14 of the drawing is a bottom view of my invention. v

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same` My invention -relates to clothes-pounders for washing purposes, andvconsists in the novel construction and arrangement of devicesintended to serve as a valuable and eiieicnt device for the 'purpose mentioned.

My pounder is constructed in three parts. The letter A represents the body or stock of the pounder, perforated with a suitable number of holes marked B.

l These holes or perforations in the stock are slightly inclined upward and inward,.and they should be of snicent diameter to allow the water to pass ,up freely. l

The lower surface of the pounder may be flat or conveX, but its upper surface should be concave, forming, with the concave lower surface of the disk next to be`described, a suction chamber.

O represents a disk centrally perforated, and arranged on the handles betweenlthe stock A and valve D. 4

This `disk is provided with several perforations, Z, extending through it from itslower to its upper surface. .Its lower surface is concave, and the edge thereof is accurately itted to the adjacent edge of the beater A.

R is the chamber formed between the beaterA and disk O. It serves as a means of communication between the beater-perforation B and the disk-perforationZ Z, and is an important auxiliary in the valvular action.

E represents the handle, iitted in'the stock A at aY short distance from the bottom, as shown on iig'. 2. This handle is also inserted through the disk C, and a shoulder, m, thereon prevents this disk from rising beyond a certain point. i

The valve D allows the-air to escape freely from the tubes B Z, as the pounder is forced into the water, so that the air cannot offer any resistance to theeutrance of the water into the p'erforations.r

The water will, therefore, not splash. about as it would if the pounder had a solid surface.

The operation of this machine is readily understood and seen, and therefore needs hardly any de scripticn.

A The pounder is used'in the ordinary way, the clothes being-placed in a suitable tub or vessel with a requisite quantity of water and suds, and the pounder is operated by hand or otherwise; as the pounder is forced down by the handle, the water is forced through the perforations, and the wet clothes are partially drawn intothe mouths of the holes; as the pounder is drawn up, the 'val ve closes and the water is kept in the tubes.

A suction is also created, causing the pounder to take hold of the clothes, as it were, and thereby enabling it to work them about as wel] as beat them,

in a manner highly conducive to the cleansing thereof.

XVhat I claim as my inventionzand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The perforated beater A with concave upper surface, perforated disk C with concave lower surface, and valve D, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: JAMES W. NORTON.

A. W. MERRICK, L. O. CURTIS. 

